I’m confused and I suspect many people are. We have a property market. We have an economy.
Up until 2006, property prices in Ireland were largely on an upward trajectory. So upward, in fact, that a lot of people could not actually afford to buy property. Anecdotally, there’s a stat floating around that said 40% of [...]

I’ve been pointed to this.
The group is expected to consist of Irish Banking Federation boss Pat Farrell, consumer advocate and founder of the askaboutmoney website, Brendan Burgess; and Paul Joyce of the Free Legal Aid Centres (FLAC).
If I had any power in Ireland – and I do not – I [...]

are different. Might as well face it. So stop being surprised when they do different stuff to you.
This week was illuminating. Someone told me JLS were playing in the O2 in January or February next year. I do not know who JLS are. The response I got was also illuminating. I must have heard one [...]

It is – sometime soon – Saint Valentine’s Day. Every single company who sends me promotional email – which I don’t mind because sometimes it’s useful (it includes money off vouchers for one of my printing companies, for example) – and anyway I signed up to it – has been also sending me suggestions for [...]

Thanks to the Sunday Times. I was too angry to read this one on Sunday so here are some thoughts on the idea.
Eamon Ryan, the communications minister, said that the government had taken steps to rescue the banking system, and now had to help individual homeowners. “Just as the banks were assisted to protect the [...]

Your iTunes stuff. It works. Most of the time I think it’s great.
When I am signed into my account and redeeming gift vouchers please do not demand I re-enter my account information again. Why the hell should I have to when I am already signed in? Yes, I know I need an account to redeem [...]

According to a breaking news report on the Irish Times site yesterday, the government intends to raise 1 billion euro from next year by metering water usage. This was made known, apparently, by John Gormley during an RTE interview. I’m absolutely fascinated that one of our ministers can be so unutterably dumb; I long ago [...]

In 1984, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won an Olympic gold medal for ice dancing. ITV are now carefully reminding us that they haven’t gone away you know because we now have Dancing on Ice.
Dancing on Ice is like Strictly Come Dancing (On Ice) except there’s the added bonus of participants all of whom are [...]

Dear Airtricity,
Some evening during the week, one of your sales representatives rang my doorbell with a view to persuading me to change from my current electricity provider to you. I did not enjoy the experience.
I found it intimidating to be honest. Ultimately, while I recognise that Airtricity might be less expensive than my current provider [...]

I have my phone set up to play Radio IO Chill because I like that station and they released their iPhone app recently. It was working a treat yesterday evening, go me. I had it plugged into the stereo which was handy enough but it doesn’t charge the thing so I started looking at possible [...]